Stats last weigh… 4 days shy of 21 months
21 months: 10.56kg 82.5cm
Stats today… 5 days shy of 23 months.
23 months: 10.88kg 85cms WAHOO!
So for %iles Brendan is….
Length is just above (the dot is right on the top of the line) the 25th %ile!! which is up from just below the 25th %ile.
Adjusted age he is [...]

Doesn’t time fly? It’s hard to imagine that a year ago this gorgeous almost-toddler was almost failing to thrive, and I was struggling with post-natal depression as a result.

Talia at 18 months

Now she’s a little above the 10th percentile at 9.33kg and 74cm long, and has made the move into size 0 and size 1 [...]

IF all had gone to plan, Elora De Bondi would have celebrated her first birthday days ago.
Instead, the gutsy Melbourne toddler – born almost four months premature and weighing only 319g – reached that milestone in January.
Ever since doctors told mother Adele her only child had “no chance of being born alive”, Elora has been [...]

Physiotherapy is one of those emotionally fraught issues for a parent. You know you are doing the right thing by giving your child extra help to reach their physical milestones, but at the same time you still feel fragile and vulnerable because your baby isn’t making progress like everyone else.
When it was first suggested Talia [...]

By Andrew Exon
Infant Massage has found its own niche in the medical industry and it promotes healthy growth of premature and full-term infants. Low birth weight and bone mineralization are both common problems of premature infants that lead to many other related health complications.
Recent studies have found that regular infant massage performed by a [...]

Today was my birthday (old, even older than when I was pregnant and didn’t people go on about “advanced maternal age” even then!) and also the date of Talia’s 8 month check up.
As before our four month check up, we were sent a questionnaire to complete in advance of the appointment. In contrast [...]